Editing Beltrán 2010 (section)

====The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference====
*Main Idea: The idealistic concept of community represses the ability to differentiate socially given its desire to group subjects together. When in action, this serves to exclude those within the group that do not fully identify with the other members. 
**Unity is a desire for "security, symmetry, and social wholeness."
*Author claims that in order to decenter Democratic participation from the exclusion of those different from the group, political discourse like rhetoric, political art, and protests should be conducted.
*Face to face participatory practices disempower segments of political community via a failure to meditate though the "speech and actions of others" (Pg. 59) 
**Local participation, however, may be faulty due to plausible misunderstandings that arise out of imbalances in power, privilege, ability, and knowledge.
*Author Young defines 'Justice' as the "elimination of domination and oppression" (Pg. 59) 
**Young calls for representation for disadvantaged groups and believes that social groups are a typeof constituency that needs formal representation although may not hold the same ideologies. 

  "Belonging without dissolving into commonness" (Pg.60)